Education in the preoccupation of Moldavia’s Metropolitans Iacob Putneanul and Veniamin Costachi
Education in the preoccupation of Moldavia’s Metropolitans Iacob Putneanul and Veniamin Costachi

Summary/Abstract: Our Church has always been focused on the education of its spiritual sons and daughters, irrespective of their age. This essential work has been revealed in many forms: preaching, confessing, setting up schools, writing and printing textbooks for students or books for general teaching, etc. The Metropolitan Iacob Putneanul, Iacob Stamati and Veniamin Costachi are only those few among many hierarchs of our Church who consistently and systematically focused on this work; hence, the name given in their hounor by their contemporaries or descendants (“The Romanians’ Pestalozzi” or “The Enlightener of Moldova”). Beyond this thorough and fundamental education provided by means of the pulpit or the confession chair, they were the founders of numerous and various schools, they wrote and published the first textbooks, they made sustained effort in introducing or reintroducing the Romanian language in schools and Church, as well as printing countless religious books, teachings, many of which had important prefaces underlining the benefits of education, emphasizing the final human destination – “rejoicing into God”. Their complex cultural work has proven fruitful both during their time and afterwards, and together with their work, they have represented remarkable highlights in the Romanian cultural history.

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